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Press Release – Northern Region Health Coordination Centre
There has been a strong public response for COVID-19 testing since the Auckland region entered community Alert Level 3 on Sunday morning.
Over 3,700 swabs were taken across the 10 dedicated community testing centres on Sunday, with strong demand continuing into Monday. Since Sunday 14 February there have been more than 70,000 community tests for COVID-19 in metro Auckland (over 4 per cent of Auckland’s population).
Northern Region Health Coordination Centre Lead (and Counties Manukau Health CEO) Margie Apa, said that testing locations will remain open all week.
“We have ensured the geographic spread of testing locations has met the needs of the community, so it’s easy to find a testing centre,” Margie Apa said.
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Thursday, 18 February 2021, 5:07 pm
More than 27,000 people across the Northern Region have
undergone COVID-19 testing since Sunday’s move to Alert
Level 3.
In total, 27,412 people had been tested as at
4pm, with more than 11,000 of these Māori or Pacific (4023
Māori, 7302 Pacific).
This ranks as the region’s
second-busiest COVID-19 testing period on record following
the peak levels set during the Auckland outbreak in August
2020.
The Northern Region is comprised of four
district health board (DHB) areas – Northland, Waitematā,
Auckland and Counties Manukau, with a combined population of
more than 1.8 million.
Northern Region Health
Coordination Centre Lead (and Counties Manukau Health CEO)